Botticelli - January 2025

Thread Games
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Previous IQs::

Did you play Tallahassee in the two Zombieland movies? - Woody Harrelson
Were you FDR’s first cadaverous aide? - Louis Howe
Were you FDR’s second cadaverous aide? - Yes, Harry Hopkins

DQs:

Has something named after him?
Greatest fame before 1945?

IQs:

Best-known as an actor, are you also a licensed helicopter pilot who’s been commended for helping those who got into trouble out west?
Did you fall in love with Eliza Doolittle despite yourself?
Did you play the unctuous assistant to a millionaire in The Big Lebowski?

102

IQs:
1. Do you feature on “Closer”, by the Chainsmokers?
2. Is a way to remember the fate of your spouses “Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived”?
3. Hey, weren’t you the Horse on Horsin’ Around?

103

Adolf Hitler
Hermann Göring
Reinhard Heydrich


DQ1: Astronomer/physicist?
DQ2: Native speaker of a Germanic language?
Two DQs reserved.

104

Joseph Hooker, Oliver Otis Howard, and Henry Halleck (though I should note that I meant to write “at the time of that battle”).

3 DQs reserved, unless you want to call me on the last question.

105

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with H
  4. Deceased
  5. Not American
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Died after 1950
  8. European
  9. Known for science or medicine
  10. From continental Europe
  11. Died before 1990
  12. Not known for mediicine
  13. Has something named after him
  14. Greatest fame before 1945
  15. Astronomer/physicist
  16. Native speaker of a German language
106
  1. I am not Harrison Ford.
  2. I am not Henry Higgins.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. I am not Henry VIII.
    Take 2 DQs.
107

That will put us over 20 DQs.
No more IQs, please. Ask your remaining DQs by 9pm EST tomorrow. Thank you.

108

DQ: First name begins A-M?

2 DQs reserved.

109

1 (“Closer”) was Halsey; 3 (Horsin’ Around) was BoJack Horseman, of Netflix’s BoJack Horseman.

DQ: best known for physics?

1 DQ reserved.

110

Holly Gennaro, Hester, Hunt Stockwell.

DQ: Do you have something to do with Uncertainty?

3 DQs reserved

111

Gee, I dunno. Maybe. Could be.

I guess I’m…

Werner Heisenberg!

Well guessed, kitap!

112

Good job, kitap!

Lasse Hallstrom

113

And they said I would never learn anything by reading Bimbos of the Death Sun.

I am…

L

As is Lincoln, Laramie and lychee.

114

IQs:

  1. Did you write about John Dough and the Cherub?
  2. Were you the Shadow’s girlfriend?
  3. Did you do an admirable job of portraying Bertie Wooster opposite Stephen Fry’s Jeeves?
115

Congrats, Kitap!

IQs:
1. Did you hang out with Squiggy?
2. Did you write the book We (the other “person” in the title is your vehicle)?
3. Hair toss, check your nails–are you feeling “Good as Hell”?

116

Great get, kitap!

IQs:

  1. Did you throw a perfect game for a now-renamed baseball club?
  2. Were you the mastermind of “The Great All-Nighter” in Midnight Madness?
  3. Did you attempt to assassinate President Ford?
117

I am not L(yman). Frank Baum
I am not Margo Lane
I am not Hugh Laurie

I am not Lenny
Take a DQ
Take another

118

Take 2 DQs and I am not Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme

119

Correct on #3. #1 was Len Barker, Cleveland Guardians (then Indians), #2 was “Leon” (no last name given in the movie).

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Female?
120

2 (We) was Charles Lindbergh; 3 (“Good as Hell”) was Lizzo.

DQ: first name begins with L?

1 DQ reserved.